- Dr. Laura Ayres

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - DEATHS

January 17, 1992

Ayres, coordinator of Portugal's campaign against AIDS, died Thursday in Lisbon, Portugal, from a brain hemorrhage suffered last month. She was 69. Ayres was a campaigner against the spread of the AIDS virus and became a well-known public figure when she became head of the National Commission for the Fight against AIDS. She also was director of the virus laboratory at Portugal's National Health Institute and president of the European Community's Health Service Research Committee.